Prizes and Accolades
EDEN ROBINSON WINS THE 2024 INDSPIRE AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS
April 18, 2024: Congratulations to Eden Robinson, this year’s winner of the Indspire award for Arts. Eden was nominated for her accomplishments in writing and as a mentor and role model to other Indigenous writers.
THOMAS WHARTON IS A FINALIST AT THE 2024 ALBERTA LITERARY AWARDS
April 3, 2024: Congratulations to Thomas Wharton, a 2024 finalist for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and the James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Wharton was shortlisted for his novel The Book of Rain and for his reflective essay Cat Fox Neutrino.
SUSAN MUSGRAVE GRANTED THE GEORGE WOODCOCK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
March 26, 2023: Susan Musgrave has been recognized with the George Woodcock Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement in British Columbia.
Musgrave was born in 1951 in Santa Cruz, California, and raised on Vancouver Island. Her first poetry collection was published in 1970. She is the author of almost 30 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature and is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. She teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of British Columbia and conducts workshops in libraries, prisons, high schools, and psychiatric wards across the country. Musgrave lives on Haida Gwaii.
Her recent collection of poetry, Exculpatory Lilies, is available now through McClelland & Stewart.
LISA BIRD-WILSON IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
October 12, 2022: Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Probably Ruby has been shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction. Darrell Dennis has also been shortlisted as a co-author in the drama category.
SUSAN MUSGRAVE HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
April 19, 2023: Susan Musgrave’s Exculpatory Lilies has been shortlisted for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize. The Griffin Poetry Prize is one of the world’s most generous and prestigious poetry awards. The winner will receive $130,000, with each finalist awarded $10,000.
SUSAN MUSGRAVE IS A FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY
October 25, 2023: Congratulations to Susan Musgrave, a 2023 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Musrgave was shortlisted for her poetry collection Exculpatory Lilies. The winner will be announced November 8.
SUSAN MUSGRAVE HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT POETRY PRIZE
August 29, 2023: Susan Musgrave’s Exculpatory Lilies is among the 15 finalists for this year’s Derek Walcott Poetry Prize. The prize is awarded to a full-length book of poems in English, or English translation, by a living poet from outside the U.S. The prize is administered by Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.
MARIA CAMPBELL GRANTED THE CHERYL AND HENRY KLOPPENBURG AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
September 27, 2023: Maria Campbell has been named the winner of the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. The award, which carries a prize of $10,000, honours writers from Saskatchewan who have had a significant impact on writing in the province.
THOMAS WHARTON IS A FINALIST FOR THE 2023 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITER’S TRUST FICTION PRIZE
September 27, 2023: Congratulations to Thomas Wharton, a 2023 finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Wharton was shortlisted for his novel The Book of Rain.
LISA BIRD-WILSON WINS BIG AT THE SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS
June 23, 2022: At the Saskatchewan Book Awards’ virtual event on June 23, 2022, Lisa Bird-Wilson, the author of the novel PROBABLY RUBY (Doubleday Canada, Hogarth USA), won the Saskatoon Book Prize for the best book by an author from that city, as well as the Book of the Year Award, which she won for the second time. Her short story collection JUST PRETENDING won Book of the Year in 2014.
As CEO of the Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI), Lisa can also take pride in the fact that GDI Press won the Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award for 20.12M: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF LIFE LIVED AS A ROAD ALLOWANCE METIS by Arnolda Dufour Bowes.
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ALAN BRADLEY WINS BEST FOREIGN MYSTERY AT THE 2021 MOSCOW BOOK FAIR
June 18, 2021: Alan Bradley wins best foreign mystery at the Moscow Book Fair.
IAN WILLIAMS' DEBUT NOVEL WINS THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
November 18, 2019: Ian Williams has been named the winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction and takes home the accompanying $100,000 prize.
CARRIANNE LEUNG WINS THE 22ND ANNUAL DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD
June 1, 2019: Carrianne Leung is the recipient of the $10,000 first prize in the 22nd annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her collection of linked stories that “skillfully captures the desires and anguish that lie beneath the surface of seemingly peaceful suburban lives.”
EDEN ROBINSON WINS BC BOOK PRIZE
May 11, 2019: Eden Robinson’s Trickster Drift, the second book in her Trickster trilogy, wins the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize for fiction.
EDEN ROBINSON AWARDED THE 2017 WRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA FELLOWSHIP
November 8, 2017: Eden Robinson is awarded the $50,000 Writers' Trust of Canada Fellowship for her “razor-sharp precision, madcap humour and preternatural gift for dialogue.”
